Life brings changes so moving to Phoenix Arizona was my next stepping-stone.

Here I got enrolled with The Carl T. Hayden V.A. where things are so much more advanced and people actually cared about a person's mental status.

It was here that I received the medication and counseling that I needed.

I am now receiving Social Security Disability for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 70% from Veterans Affairs for Post Traumatic Stress, 30% for each one of my knees, along with anther 10% for each of my knees, and 40% for traumatic brain injury.

My injuries are not getting better but with the proper medication, my mental state is very stable.

I am now 90% with Veterans Affairs and receiving individual unemployability.

I also have other claims in that the state of Mississippi wrongfully denied, as my last evaluation stated.

I recently purchased my first home using my V. A. Home Loan Guaranty after spending every dime that I had saved and cleaning up my credit from previous years.

Trying to survive off of $550 a month will drastically put a person behind and for me this period lasted more than 5 years.

Bills that I acquired before I left the military were still coming in along with newly acquired ones and working for others is not an option due to my Post Traumatic Stress.

I am now back in school at the University of Phoenix. I am seven classes away from my bachelor's degree in Information Technology but I will not stop there.

I will continue until I have my doctorate in psychology to ensure that no more of my fellow soldiers fall through the cracks the way that I feel as though I did.

I have always been a God-fearing man and believe that he will show each of us our path in life.

I have exhausted my G.I. Bill and I am around $50,000 in debt just with school alone.

I am looking for any type of grant(s) that will completely pay off my school debt, personal debt, and help me to attain my Doctorate of Psychology so that I may become that doctor that I so desperately needed back in 2004 when I returned from Iraq.

I would like to open my own office for psychology and work with Veterans Affairs to save the lives of our returning war veterans. A person cannot be taught experience.

The Vocational Rehabilitation people have told me that they would not help me because it is not practical for me to open my own business. But saving lives is practical to me.

Through all the times in my life, good and bad, I have never stopped praying that God show me the way.

I have gone through the valley, and know what it feels like to be half way to the mountaintop.

I am looking for the stepping-stone or help to get me above and beyond where I want to go.

I can then proudly look my son in the eye and tell him that there are more people in the world that care, than do not. Thank you.

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